More than bread alone

Published November 10, 2004

Of all the U.S. election results, the most remarkable was that in Ohio. That Ohio's electoral votes were the ones that assured George W. Bush his victory was just a trick of timing. Many other states and other people behaved the same way, but had their ballots counted earlier.

What was so striking about Ohians was that they voted against their own self-interests. During the past four years, more than...